Is This a Cry for Help?: A Novel Grades 9 And Up from the corner of Sooha’s

from the corner of Sooha’s eye to the deep recesses of her dreams

For each letter

They raised me to be meek and stifled my magic

that pull buried beneath my skin

Is This a Cry for Help?: A Novel Grades 9 And Up from the corner of Sooha’sEmily Austin FRONTLIST Jan 13, 2026 Trade Paperback Fiction LGBTQ+ Lesbian Fiction Humorous Dark Humor Fiction Literary 304 pages Full Colour Throughout 22. 9 cm H 15. 2 cm W 1. 9 cm T 288 g Wt Emily Austin, the bestselling queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book banning